Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.
There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.
Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.